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Hundreds of feature-length movies from Walt Disney Co., Columbia, Warner Bros., TriStar Studios and others have been posted to YouTube over past 12 months, despite the availability of the Content ID tool to block such content. None of the studios involved would comment, although Disney did block some content after being asked about it by The Wall Street Journal. According to YouTube, more than 4,000 media companies are using Content ID to protect their content.

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Hundreds of feature-length movies from Walt Disney Co., Columbia, Warner Bros., TriStar and others have been posted to YouTube over the past 12 months, despite the availability of the Content ID tool to block such content. None of the studios involved would comment, although Disney did block some content after being asked about it by The Wall Street Journal. According to YouTube, more than 4,000 media companies are using Content ID to protect their content.

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